SlickEdit 11.02 Vim Issues

[Rich]

Hi,

I noticed a some issues:

1. search highlighting is broken.  e.g., this only highlights the first instance of "foo" but each time you hit 'n', it will highlight subsequent ones--that means hitting 'n' to cycle thru every occurance in order to hightlight all of them: 

Vim command to highlight all 'foo':  /foo/*# 

2. Vim_Emulation.pdf might scare off Vim users because under "Cursor Movement" section, it shows that CTRL is required--e.g., CTRL-J for left.   That may cause them to not read on to the "Command Mode" section.

3. this might be my fault but I'm unable to find a way to bring up the Find dialog with the keyboard when in Vim emulation.

[Ryan]

1. search highlighting is broken.  e.g., this only highlights the first instance of "foo" but each time you hit 'n', it will highlight subsequent ones--that means hitting 'n' to cycle thru every occurance in order to hightlight all of them:

Indeed...there is now a change request filed to support highlighting all occurrences of searches performed via the ex command line.

2. Vim_Emulation.pdf might scare off Vim users because under "Cursor Movement" section, it shows that CTRL is required--e.g., CTRL-J for left.   That may cause them to not read on to the "Command Mode" section.

We will keep this in mind...perhaps we should list the command mode cursor movement section before the other, standard key bindings.

3. this might be my fault but I'm unable to find a way to bring up the Find dialog with the keyboard when in Vim emulation.

 

Yea, Ctrl+f is used in Vim for page-down, so we didn't have a great default key binding to use for this emulation  .  You can certainly bind the command gui-find to any key which you would like, and also Ctrl+Shift+f will bring up the Find dialog (though the focus will be on the "Find in Files" tab). 

- Ryan